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Lets see.. my linux box is gonna be set up to be a firewall (gonna try anyway) and my windoze box is for web browsing, programming etc.. My problem is that i dont know how to go about setting this up on linux.. windoze to windoze is fine.. i just cant get the linux box to communicate with the windoze box... if you need more info i can prolly get it for you.. thx

If you just want something quick and dirty that works - no muss, no fuss - there are several Linux distros out there designed specifically for this purpose. There's smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org), ipcop (www.ipcop.org), and Mandrake Single Network Firewall (www.linux-mandrake.com). These all have nice web-based configuration tools and are designed with an appliance-like functionality for those who just want something that works with a minimum of know-how.

If you want to get your hands just a little bit dirtier, you can install something like Red Hat 7.3 or Mandrake 8.2 and use the bastille script (www.bastille-linux.org, comes with Mandrake) to configure your gateway. Bastille makes NAT and packet filtering just about as straightforward as it can get. At the moment, it only supports rpm-based distros, but for a first time setup that's probably what you should be using anyway.

Either of those options should make first-time firewall setup pretty straightforward. If you have specific questions, IM me and I'll try to help. My Yahoo messenger info is in my profile.